The anecdotes surrounding the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana - which took place 41 years ago on July 29, 1981 - are quite interesting (and sometimes terribly depressing).

Despite the grandeur of the occasion, there was one rather glaring blunder: Diana reversed Charles' name in her wedding vows. Diana spilled perfume on her wedding dress before walking down the aisle. And the blunder that started our beloved royal wedding tradition: Prince Charles forgot to kiss Diana at the altar (oops!). ), so the two later made up for the mistake on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. [According to PureWow, this moment "marked the beginning of a new royal wedding tradition that would be replicated for generations to come. Just five years later, on July 23, 1986, the now disgraced Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson and kissed her on the iconic balcony; on April 29, 2011, Prince William and Kate Middleton kissed on the balcony.

At Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding on May 19, 2018, they kissed for their fans, but it was in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, not on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

"Ah, royal romance," PureWow wrote. In the case of Diana and Charles, it wasn't ultimately a fairy tale, but it certainly seemed like one at the time."